Ever lived abroad?

Lad Of Banter

& if you did, how did you find it?

I did the mandatory year of drinking in Australia before coming home then doing a two year stint in New Zealand, which I absolutley loved. Still ask myself to this day, wtf was I thinking to come back?

You?

CardBordWindow

I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
Does that count?

Faith+1

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
Does that count?

Yes. Hope you got your shots.

Lad Of Banter

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
Does that count?

depends where you're from, is Cork considered abroad?

Rosier

Living abroad now.. in Ireland..

The Backwards Man

I was in Santa Ponsa for four nights once.

So, no, never been abroad.

D1stant

CardBordWindow wrote: »

I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
Does that count?

Extradited?

SEPT 23 1989

i have heard its full of foreigners

o1s1n

I live abroad 2-3 times a year for a period of 1-2 weeks each.

homemadecider

I lived and worked in India for a year. The weather was stinkin hot*, the chilli-spiked food tried to burn me from the inside out and the water half killed me with its various pathogens. Good times!

* To put it in context, it was 47 degrees celcius the day I left.

bodice ripper

Am currently living as a broad, abroad.

Philm_12

I went out with abroad - does that count?

Savoir.Faire

Spent a couple of months studying the religions of Central and Near-Eastern Asia. Wonderful to live amongst the natives and see how their beliefs and traditions emerged from the embers of even more ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism. Even a debate on the gnostic traditions that Bahá'í accepts as being moralistically valid have had a profound influence on my spiritualism.

Travel really does broaden the mind.

Muise...

Only in little stints of less than a year. One cold morning I tuned the radio to RTÉ 1 and listened to the weather forecast. I got a peculiar sense that I had sunk underwater and could never surface again. Might have been homesickness, which is weird, because one look at the horizon here and I get wanderlust.

old hippy

Been living in London the past 14 years, retiring in Japan within the next 14 years.

nbar12

i lived up in belfast for some time, but i didnt get on with the locals because they didnt like my fleg

Drakares

Already living abroad. Wouldn't move back as the education, health, public transport, environmental, job market, cost of living is much better here. Not to mention my missus!

I do miss Lyons, Barry's and the odd bag of Tayto though!

WIZE

Lived in Germany for 8 years

AnonoBoy

I lived as a broad for a year in the 90's.

I was just out of college, I was experimenting.

It was fun at the time but I probably wouldn't go back to it. I found the tights very itchy.

BraziliaNZ

I love these threads were everyone can bang on about how wonderful and worldly they are!

old hippy

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I love these threads were everyone can bang on about how wonderful and worldly they are!

To counter that, there's still plenty who have lived abroad and not had their minds broadened...

con___manx1

I have lived in Canada the U.S illegally for a while and Australia. Ireland is still my favorite tho

clappyhappy

Spent a year in the US travelling around. Then spent 8 years working in Dubai, only came back as we had our first born out there and believed Dubai was not the place to bring up a child. Very settled here now and kids love it but once they go to college we are gone again, somewhere new.

Westernyelp

I was abroad in the back field the other evening, didn't like it. wet

BeerWolf

Was born and raised in Malaysia for 11 years before I moved to Ireland - been living in Ireland for hell of a lot longer since! :pac:


I might end up moving again to the US or Germany eventually.

jester77

Have spent 13-14 years living abroad.

Oink

Lad Of Banter wrote: »

& if you did, how did you find it?

I did the mandatory year of drinking in Australia before coming home then doing a two year stint in New Zealand, which I absolutley loved. Still ask myself to this day, wtf was I thinking to come back?

You?

Yeah, I also ask myself why the hell you came back??? I mean Ireland is grand and all, but...?

Feisar

Two and a half years in Belfast if that counts, not getting into that debate!

Currently in the middle of a year long stint in Belgium.

It's grand but I'm a bit of a home bird.

jimgoose

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

Spent a couple of months studying the religions of Central and Near-Eastern Asia. Wonderful to live amongst the natives and see how their beliefs and traditions emerged from the embers of even more ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism. Even a debate on the gnostic traditions that Bahá'í accepts as being moralistically valid have had a profound influence on my spiritualism.

Travel really does broaden the mind.

Aye, and so say all of us. Those Rastas can go an' sh!te, but - their spoo has way too much fleem.

Surveyor11

Would have liked to gone further afield to live for an extended period of time. I spent 2 summers in Germany followed by an Erasmus year, which I loved - it was just after reunification, so enjoyed being part of the history that was developing at the time.

Lived in the UK for 5 years when I graduated - Shropshire (which was miserable) and London (which I loved and met my wife there).

BraziliaNZ

Oink wrote: »

Yeah, I also ask myself why the hell you came back??? I mean Ireland is grand and all, but...?

NZ is so isolated and socially it's the most boring country I've ever been to, so I wouldn't blame him. They're like the strict Scottish Presbyterians of the Southern Hemisphere.

Milly33

Lived in Dubai for a year and a bit.. Twas great but getting a little messy when I left getting a bit too Europeanised. And while it is fantastic and great for making money it is a bit of a shock when you come back and realise tisnt all sunshine and lollipops..

Maximus Alexander

Spent a year between Thailand and Australia and had a fantastic time, but ultimately was happy to come home. I still love travelling and seeing new places and cultures, but I don't think I'd settle down anywhere other than Ireland. For all its flaws, it's home.

bodice ripper

jimgoose wrote: »

Aye, and so say all of us. Those Rastas can go an' sh!te, but - their spoo has way too much fleem.

And they eat it fresh, the animals.

Rhyme

Lived in a town in The Netherlands for a few months. Crap food, odd but friendly people, great transport system and a very... comfortable place, though that could have been just the town I lived in.

Hoop66

I've lived in some right backwards shítholes.

Indonesia, Nigeria, Ireland...

AnonoBoy

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I love these threads were everyone can bang on about how wonderful and worldly they are!

I did a fair bit of banging on when I was a broad so I did. Jaysus I was a real goer!

Lived in London for a year, didn't like it at all and couldn't wait to move back. Have no desire to live anywhere but Ireland again.

Bungarra

Three years now... I miss my family! :mad:

WindSock

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I love these threads were everyone can bang on about how wonderful and worldly they are!

Sure thing, Brazil / NZ.

But...every 6 minutes a person emigrates, so it's hardly something of an anomaly.

Muise...

WindSock wrote: »

Sure thing, Brazil / NZ.

But...every 6 minutes a person emigrates, so it's hardly something of an anomaly.

is that like when Bono clicks his fingers?

WindSock

Muise... wrote: »

is that like when Bono clicks his fingers?

No no, I think a child dies when he gets the clap or something.

BraziliaNZ

WindSock wrote: »

Sure thing, Brazil / NZ.

But...every 6 minutes a person emigrates, so it's hardly something of an anomaly.

I'm actually named after a bikini brand

Eileen Down

I've been living abroad for the last eight years and have not been back to Ireland for almost four years to the day. My friend said to me recently; "Hey James Joyce, go fecking home !".

WindSock

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I'm actually named after a bikini brand

Oh as if conservative Catholic Brazilians and Proddie Kiwis would even wear bikinis.

MadsL

WindSock wrote: »

But...every 6 minutes a person emigrates, so it's hardly something of an anomaly.

You'd think that lad would give each country a bit longer, I mean he'd hardly get a flavour of the place in six minutes, barely out of the airport.

Sleepy

Kind of, I commuted to London for 6 months back in 2008/2009, flying back every weekend to see the missus and kids.

Would have moved the family over there if I could have but circumstances prevent it.

WindSock

MadsL wrote: »

You'd think that lad would give each country a bit longer, I mean he'd hardly get a flavour of the place in six minutes, barely out of the airport.

I blame the country's swinging-door policy :mad:
The chap must have gotten stuck in it or something. Probably built by those no good Irish during the boom years.

lahalane

Lived in Australia for 8 months. Didn't like it so came home and love the country even more than I did leaving.

Temptamperu

I lived in Amsterdam for a couple of years, dunno why i ever came back.

bodice ripper

Temptamperu wrote: »

I lived in Amsterdam for a couple of years, dunno why i ever came back.

I am living in Amsterdam now, don't know why I ever left Ireland.

I have been an expat since I was three, and I have never felt as out of place as I do here.